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Housing Minister Chris Bishop is encouraging tenants to negotiate a cheaper deal as rent prices drop.

Hikers are risking their lives daily venturing into closed areas of a popular Canterbury national park track, where construction and explosive work is under way to build a new bridge, Doc says.

Three people are believed to be injured after a crash that has closed part of a Canterbury highway.

Jewellery was taken and a large glass door smashed in an early morning burglary at a Salvation Army store in Christchurch.

Dunedin's Six60 will join with Synthony to provide the first live music set at Christchurch's brand new One New Zealand Stadium in May next year.

The parents of a 13-year-old Christchurch girl who died after hitting her head while ice skating are angry the coroner will not open an inquiry into her death, saying they fear the same thing could happen again.

Alister Thorby spent fraudulently obtained DHB funds on buying a house, vehicles and overseas travel.